While we have no idea where Gendry will be making is grand reappearance into the series — he *did* tell Davos that he knew nothing about swimming nor boats before rowing away — but chances are, he’ll quickly stumble into some drama. We honestly hope he reemerges The Hound style or runs into Hot Pie, who will give him the SparkNotes version of everything he’s missed.

Regardless, we have a feeling he’ll find himself back in business as a blacksmith because Jon Snow is about to need one now that he’s mining dragonglass. Seriously though, there’s no way David Benioff and D.B. Weiss spent *that* much time telling us Gendry’s an amazing blacksmith only to have him never forge anything again.

Gendry’s long been one of the most curious characters on the HBO series.

During the first three seasons, he was an integral part of the drama over the Iron Throne before literally sailing off into the sunset (okay, rowing off in the middle of the night). That makes his return all the more interesting seeing as though most of the people who knew of his existence are either dead, or would assume he’s long dead. But, it seems the long absent character will return with a vengeance and once again, become integral to the plot. In addition to being speculated as the blacksmith to help Jon Snow forge his weapons to defeat the White Walkers, it’s also been theorized that Gendry will revive the presumed dead House Baratheon.

While everything surrounding Gendry’s reappearance on the show is a mystery, we’re so happy to finally have him back. Now can he PLEASE reunite with Arya?!